Authorities seized a small cache of weapons and ammunition from the New Jersey home of New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress, the New York Post and Newsday both reported Wednesday, possibly setting up the embattled player for more legal trouble. ...more

December 24, 2008

Super Bowl hero Plaxico Burress accidentally shot himself in the right thigh and spent the night in the hospital, another dramatic turn in a tumultuous season in which the star New York Giants receiver has been fined and suspended. ...more

November 30, 2008

Reid Sigmon, executive director of the Tampa Bay Super Bowl Host Committee, will address the Ybor City Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday at the Columbia Restaurant, 2117 E. Seventh Ave. ...more

May 8, 2008

Thanks goodness for Charlie Miranda, who brings perspective and maturity to his seat on Tampa City Council. ...more

February 11, 2008

The Barrio Latino Commission, the citizens' panel charged with protecting the architectural integrity of Ybor City, is mistaken to oppose a proposal by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office to close a street adjacent to the sheriff's headquarters. ...more

February 6, 2008

Columbia Restaurant owner Richard Gonzmart thought he was blessed in 2006 when someone returned a stolen bronze bust of his mother about a month after it vanished from outside the landmark Ybor City restaurant. ...more

February 5, 2008

Saturday, an employee of the Columbia Restaurant discovered that the 80-pound hollow sculpture of Richard Gonzmart's mother, Adela Hernandez Gonzmart, was gone from its sidewalk pedestal. Someone had wrenched the likeness of the restaurant family's matriarch from the marble where it had been bolted and welded after another theft in December 2005. ...more

February 4, 2008